Privacy

A French businessman has filed for €45 million in reparations from Uber.
His complaint? That Uber allegedly caused his divorce after his wife
received notifications about his trips and suspected he was being
unfaithful.

Can online trackers and network adversaries de-anonymize web browsing data
readily available to them? We show —theoretically, via simulation,
and through experiments on real user data— that de-identified web
browsing histories can be linked to social media profiles using only
publicly available data

Tech

Initially used to improve the experience for visually impaired members of
the Facebook community, the company's Lumos computer vision platform is
now powering image content search for all users. This means you can now
search for images on Facebook with key words that describe the contents of
a photo, rather than being limited by tags and captions.